Morning Meme: Ari Gold Wants to "Sparkle," Looking Back At "Harry Potter," and Father Cutie Never Judged Ricky Martin

Footballer DeSean Jackson is apologizing for calling a radio show caller a "gay ass faggot." What strikes me is that immediately after the incident, he tweeted like this "THEY LOOKN 2 TAKE YA DOWN AT ALL TIMES NO MATTER HOW POSITIVE AND WHAT U DO!! ITS ALWAYS AWAY THEY TRY TO GET YA.... IM STANDIN TALL"  but now that he's apologizing he tweets like this "I am sorry for using words that I know to be hurtful and unacceptable in a recent radio interview. Intolerance is unacceptable and I apologize to anyone I have offended. ... I have made a mistake and would like to make it clear that words I used meant no disrespect to the Gay and Lesbian community." I'm no forensics expert, but I do get paid to write, and those tweets have very different voices.

Jonah Hill and Zooey Deschanel are accusing Entertainment Weekly of fabricating quotes from them at the reception for Prince William this weekend. That's odd for a reputable publication like EW.

Six Atlanta police officers have been fired in connection with the violent raid on The Eagle nearly two years ago, while a dozen more were disciplined. It still seems like most of them got off too easy, but it's more punishment than I ever expected.

Joe McElderry has won the Popstar to Operastar competition, and says he may even try his hand at opera professionally. Congratulations, Joe!

TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie is backpedaling rapidly after speaking at an event for the anti-gay Focus On the Family. He says they obviously didn't vet the invitation well, and he further states  "So there is no misunderstanding created by this mistake, let me clearly state that both TOMS, and I as the founder, are passionate believers in equal human and civil rights for all. That belief is a core value of the company and of which we are most proud."

The last known gay survivor of the Nazi concentration camps shares his story in a new book and discloses that some of his captors were indeed gay themselves.

David and Victoria Beckham have welcomed their first daughter. The couple already has three sons. No word on the name for the little bundle of joy, but it will probably have something to do with her conception.

The Independent is reporting that Rupert Murdoch's takeover of BSkyB is dead in the water, with Nick Clegg leading a charge that could topple the government. I always find British politics so much more colorful than America's, which mostly fill me with dread.

Today in stupid (alleged) criminals, Michael Todd, of the band Coheed and Cambria was arrested for armed robbery just before going on stage. He allegedly walked into a Walgreens and showed a note on his cell phone saying he had a bomb and demanded drugs. His band was set to open for Soundgarden.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice informed clerks in her district that the religious exemptions in the New York marriage equality act do not extend to public servants, and any who refused marriage licenses to same-sex couples may be guilty of a Class A Misdemeanor for Official Misconduct, subject to criminal prosecution.

Father Alberto Cutie says he was misquoted in an article that had him critical of Ricky Martin coming out. "I made it very clear when I was asked what I thought that I was no one to judge him in any way or any other human being who has children. Whether it’s a woman who goes through Invitro or a cesarean. They asked what the church says, so I said what the church says in the simplest way I could. That’s not what the reporter got from me, but that’s what they published."

Congratulations to the Presbyterian Church, which this past Sunday officially changed their policy on ordaining openly gay ministers.

Adam Lambert has been voted the nicest Twitterer. I'm not saying he's not, but I think the only way you get Adam Lambert to lose an online vote to anyone is to put him up against Justin Bieber and let their fans fight it out until the sands run with blood.

It's official: Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon is the highest grossing movie of the year. At least until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II opens. I weep for cinema.

As NASA retires the Space Shuttle, the European Space Agency is preparing to launch a 1 billion pixel camera into space. The metric they give is that it could measure your fingernails from the moon, which doesn't help me much. But I'm glad to see someone other than the NSA with that technology.

Rumors are flying that Lady Gaga is going to make a big music video based around her mermaid alter-ego Yuyi. Because of course she has a mermaid alter-ego.

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